TheArtToken (TAT) Raises over $11M

The token represents fractional ownership of Post War and Contemporary Art. The physical works of art will be stored and insured in a Swiss-bonded warehouse which is secured by the Swiss government.

The value of the art collection grows not just through additional investments, but with the pure annual increase of the art’s value, which saw an increase of +14.31% in 2017.

In fact, art-as-an-investment has yielded some of the highest dividends when compared to traditional asset classes with areportedaverage ROI of 10.85% per year.

The artwork represented through TAT can ultimately either be traded or redeemed for physical artwork.

The tokenization of fine art comes with the many benefits offered through the integration of distributed ledger technology— a secure and immutable method of maintaining ownership claims— with traditional financial securities.

Fractional ownership, as seen through TAT, features significant advantages when compared to traditional methods of art ownership. For example, it decreases investor barriers to access, and simultaneously increases the pool of eligible investors for businesses that wish to raise capital.

In this sense, enterprises that want to raise capital can circumvent the need for a few liquid investors by tokenizing their asset and creating its digital representation, which can then be sold and traded on regulated security token trading platforms.

Currently,OpenFinance Networkis the only US-regulated security token trading platform which is live and fully operational.tZEROaims to reach the same status in Q1 of 2019.

As 2018 comes to a close, security tokens are experiencing a rapidly increasing rate of implementation. Yet still,many claimthat 2019 will be the year when security tokens actualize the level of implementation embedded in their highly anticipated potential.